To
The Editors,
The Times of India,
The Pioneer,
Bhubaneswar.
Dear Sir,
We strongly condemn the move of the local administration to browbeat and harass Dr Nityananda Sahoo of Ichhapur, Kendrapada, to try and forcefully administer the mOPV1 to his grandchildren to whom he has already administered homoeopathic prophylactics. Dr Sahoo seems well aware of the controversy surrounding the Oral Polio Vaccine. The vaccine has been banned worldwide for its propensity to cause Vaccine Attributed Paralytic Polio and Acute Flaccid Paralysis. The mOPV1 currently being administered without following the scientific protocol of informed consent and medical supervision has caused Acute Flaccid Paralysis to shoot up by four times in the regions where it has been administered as per the doctors of the Indian Medical Association. Moreover the irrational vaccination policy of the Government of India is not mandatory. The vaccine has also been in the news for transferring 60 identified carcinogenic simian viruses into humans and which are now being transmitted from parents to children. The OPV has also caused a new strain of the polio virus and has been linked to the AIDS epidemic. We also crticise the statement that unvaccinated children will be a threat to other children as the strain of the vaccine virus escapes via the faeces and is the strain that puts other unvaccinated children and even adults at risk. Dr Sahoo should be left alone and his decision respected. We would also request the health administration to issue a warranty of vaccine safety to all parents who decide to administer the controversial drops so that the responsibility can be pinned down and the hapless parents can seek compensation for the resultant sickness/paralysis when things go wrong.
Yours faithfully,
Jagannath Chatterjee,
Bhubaneswar,
Orissa, India.
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Homeopath harassed for refusing to vaccinate grandchildren. My mail to TOI.
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Re: Homeopath harassed for refusing to vaccinate grandchildren. My mail to TOI.
Hi,
By the definition of a vaccinated person, how can an unvaccinated child be a threat or danger to ANY vaccinated child? Isn't the vaccination supposed to protect the vaccinated child? This shows the absurdity of the logic used by those wanting to force vaccinations on others? It also shows other motives are involved, such as controlling those who use alternative medicine.
Sincerely,
Mary Ann Gilmore
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By the definition of a vaccinated person, how can an unvaccinated child be a threat or danger to ANY vaccinated child? Isn't the vaccination supposed to protect the vaccinated child? This shows the absurdity of the logic used by those wanting to force vaccinations on others? It also shows other motives are involved, such as controlling those who use alternative medicine.
Sincerely,
Mary Ann Gilmore
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India recalls measles vaccine after child deaths
1 day ago
NEW DELHI (AFP) — India has recalled over four million doses of a measles vaccine supplied by a south Indian drug manufacturer after four children died following inoculation with the drug, reports said Friday.
"All state governments have been instructed to stop use of the measles vaccine manufactured by the Indian Immunological Limited until further orders," Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss told the Press Trust of India news agency.
Further supplies from the manufacturer have also been halted, he said.
The government late Thursday ordered the recall of some four million doses of the vaccine already supplied by Hyderabad-based Indian Immunologicals Limited out of an overall order of nine million, the Indian Express daily said.
The recall came after four infants who received the measles vaccine in the southern state of Tamil Nadu died on Wednesday.
Parents said their babies started frothing at the mouth and nose and died within 15 to 20 minutes of being administered the vaccine, news channel NDTV reported.
The state health minister has said the children might have had a severe allergic reaction to the vaccine, noting that some 20,000 children in Tamil Nadu were inoculated against measles with the same drug Wednesday.
Samples of the vaccine have been sent to a national laboratory for testing and a team of health experts is examining how the vaccine was stored and how health workers administered it.
For now, Tamil Nadu state has suspended its measles vaccination programme and inoculation programmes in other states are also likely to be hit by the recall.
An Indian minister expressed concern that the development could jeopardise India's larger immunisation efforts, sometimes beset by rumours about the safety of the injections.
In the past, India's attempts to eradicate polio have been delayed after some Islamic clerics spread rumours the vaccines would harm Muslim children.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hXh ... pXH7G3oVyw
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1 day ago
NEW DELHI (AFP) — India has recalled over four million doses of a measles vaccine supplied by a south Indian drug manufacturer after four children died following inoculation with the drug, reports said Friday.
"All state governments have been instructed to stop use of the measles vaccine manufactured by the Indian Immunological Limited until further orders," Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss told the Press Trust of India news agency.
Further supplies from the manufacturer have also been halted, he said.
The government late Thursday ordered the recall of some four million doses of the vaccine already supplied by Hyderabad-based Indian Immunologicals Limited out of an overall order of nine million, the Indian Express daily said.
The recall came after four infants who received the measles vaccine in the southern state of Tamil Nadu died on Wednesday.
Parents said their babies started frothing at the mouth and nose and died within 15 to 20 minutes of being administered the vaccine, news channel NDTV reported.
The state health minister has said the children might have had a severe allergic reaction to the vaccine, noting that some 20,000 children in Tamil Nadu were inoculated against measles with the same drug Wednesday.
Samples of the vaccine have been sent to a national laboratory for testing and a team of health experts is examining how the vaccine was stored and how health workers administered it.
For now, Tamil Nadu state has suspended its measles vaccination programme and inoculation programmes in other states are also likely to be hit by the recall.
An Indian minister expressed concern that the development could jeopardise India's larger immunisation efforts, sometimes beset by rumours about the safety of the injections.
In the past, India's attempts to eradicate polio have been delayed after some Islamic clerics spread rumours the vaccines would harm Muslim children.
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hXh ... pXH7G3oVyw
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